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The goal, explains writer Meghan Hendley-Lopez, is to open up the project’s central courtyard spaces to the street: “Activity on Main — whether it be passing vehicular traffic or pedestrians visiting the surrounding businesses — will be visible to residents, while passersby on the street will be able to see what is going on in the community spaces of the multi-level development.” Another goal is to extend Midtown’s lone typically bustling blocks of activity — home to the Continental Club, the Big Top Lounge, and Natachee’s — to reach a couple blocks north, and to connect it all the way to the planned site of Midtown arts facility MATCH.